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<p>comonyo81, that's not surprising. Engineers earn standardized salaries. As you can see, the difference in pay between #1 MIT and #10 Colorado School of Mines is negligible. I would say the average salaries of Engineers coming out of the top 100 Engineering programs would vary little. The variances across Engineering disciplines, industries and regions don't really impact salaries that much.</p>
<p>That's not quite true. The 'average' engineers coming out of college may make similar salaries (adjusting for living standards), but top engineering students with access to the more lucrative engineering jobs can make substantially more. And engineering discipline does make a difference. A civil engineer working for the government cannot expect to earn the same (salary+compensation) as a petroleum engineer working for big oil.</p>
<p>For reference, Lockheed and the other aerospace companies do not factor in school for starting salary offers of recent graduates. Geographic location and engineering discipline are factors, and there is some leeway for the particular individual...but the school itself is not a factor.</p>
<p>How do Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell and Princeton engineers compare to the top 10 schools? Can you provide the whole report/ranking?</p>
<p>Payscale does no real research. It just relies on whatever some random people who use the site report. If you want REAL data go to each school's employment reports. Most have them.</p>
<p>rogracer's post matches my recollections, from when I worked as an engineer.</p>
<p>Well, those rates are pretty standard across the board. I know plenty of engineers who didn't graduate from those top schools who are making in those salary ranges. Whoop tee doo. A degree will from MIT, Caltech, etc, will benifit someone wanting to go into consulting. That will give them the chance to make really nice starting salaries that people from other schools are excluded from. Anyway, I don't care where you graduate from if you do oil refining or oil/gas extraction you'll make more than any engineer in any field, in any area of the country, so who cares about the school you graduate from. It has more to do with geographic location.</p>
<p>Lockheed pays close to nothing, you can keep those jobs.</p>
<p>The company I work for pays salaries based on country/region market rates, i.e. they know what the average starting salaries are for engineers across the U.S. and they adjust their offers accordingly.</p>
<p>Engineering schools in the U.S. are accredited so the engineers produced are similar. We recruit the top students from all schools, but we do tend to attract and retain more from certain schools than others.</p>
<p>"Lockheed pays close to nothing"</p>
<p>Curious why you would say this. The aerospace companies share salary data..and Lockheed has made a strategic decision to pay above industry averages for most job descriptions. Purely technical positions (non-management), if you are considered an industry expert, can exceed 200K before bonuses.</p>
<p>I'm guessing this is only alum working as engineers? For the past decade a third of MIT's graduating classes have been heading to Wall Street which doesn't seem to be reflected in these numbers.</p>
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<p>no, but it does exclude anyone who has earned a graduate or professional degree.</p>
<p>Then the survey is truly surprising and hard to believe. </p>
<p>Typical engineering jobs are close in salary no matter what the school, but the elite schools send many to non traditional jobs paying much more.</p>
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